The Rounders started out in the same early-'60s New York folk and jug scene as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, and had crossed paths numerous times. Stampfel and Weber will be eternally remembered for "Bird Song," which was prominently featured in both the movie Easy Rider and its soundtrack. It's also the opening cut on "The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders", an album way beyond anything else considered to be "far out" at the time. Unabashed in its own eccentricity, this set is similar to their 1967 ESP release "Indian War Whoop" in that it combines acoustic traditional American folk, blues, and hillbilly music regurgitated by crazed folkie acidheads experimenting with electric instruments.
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